Words Have Meaning

[dellet]

As a mechanic, I can feel this guys pain, but also know it's my job to interpret customerese.

If every mechanic, customer and parts guy had to know the exact name of every part, nothing would get done. You better know what manufacturer has a water pump, and which have coolant pumps.

Never mind no one has really ever made a gas pedal, there is one that will make you accelerate tho. Haven't even had the excuse that if you pump it, it moves linkage that pumps gas for about 40 years. If you're lucky, you have a pedal actually that is connected to something that opens an air flap, but not too many of those around anymore either. "mashing down on the pedal position sensor" hasn't made it out of a customers mouth yet.

I still check points and plugs and generators, or "whatever it is that replaced them". Still understand plenty of outdated, obsolete or accepted terms, and few that aren't.

I can tolerate just about anything that comes out of a customers mouth, but starting a sentence with "google says...." gets you thrown out pretty fast.

I wonder what would happen if someone asked ole Randy there for a 300 Blackout bullet?

If the first words out of his mouth weren't "sub or super, hunting or target", you would know real quick if words really meant anything or not.

 

[markT]

I can certainly understand and comprehend vehicle advances and improvement. A wonderful thing. From the pervious posts we can deduct that bullets and ammo are the same thing. Horns and antlers are interchangeable and why should it really matter.? American English is evolving to satisfy the population that either refuses to learn it or does not bother to actually learn the correct words. Slang is the accepted communication.

 

[Dave M.]

As a mechanic, I can feel this guys pain, but also know it's my job to interpret customerese.

If every mechanic, customer and parts guy had to know the exact name of every part, nothing would get done. You better know what manufacturer has a water pump, and which have coolant pumps.

Never mind no one has really ever made a gas pedal, there is one that will make you accelerate tho. Haven't even had the excuse that if you pump it, it moves linkage that pumps gas for about 40 years. If you're lucky, you have a pedal actually that is connected to something that opens an air flap, but not too many of those around anymore either. "mashing down on the pedal position sensor" hasn't made it out of a customers mouth yet.

I still check points and plugs and generators, or "whatever it is that replaced them". Still understand plenty of outdated, obsolete or accepted terms, and few that aren't.

I can tolerate just about anything that comes out of a customers mouth, but starting a sentence with "google says...." gets you thrown out pretty fast.

I wonder what would happen if someone asked ole Randy there for a 300 Blackout bullet?

If the first words out of his mouth weren't "sub or super, hunting or target", you would know real quick if words really meant anything or not.

So true. I’m in the auto biz too. You have to be able to decode what the customer is trying to describe to you; not belittle them for using the wrong term.
Dave

 

[Minshooter]

If "like" vanished from the English language, 99% of the under 30's couldn't complete a sentence.
That percentage might be, like, a little low.

 

[Shooter13]

In our language word meaning evolves

Yes, in my day a trans connected the engine to the differential via the drive shaft. Who knew!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

If "like" vanished from the English language, 99% of the under 30's couldn't complete a sentence.
That percentage might be, like, a little low.

Have you heard this new generation that thinks every sentence starts with “wait,”

 

[Uthink Uknow]

LOL
I heard that recently at a funeral home by a lady who thought that meant Lots Of Love.

 

[justpassinthru]

If "like" vanished from the English language, 99% of the under 30's couldn't complete a sentence.
That percentage might be, like, a little low.

That's a fact!

 

[TexasC]

Bullet for cartridge, gun for rifle or pistol I can tolerate but "gender" for "sex" convinces me that the progressives seem to be writing the dictionary.

 

[22BRGUY]

Have you heard this new generation that thinks every sentence starts with “wait,”

Either that or SOOOO

 

[22BRGUY]

Conservative and Republican are NOT the same word either.
That's becoming more evident every day also

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Either that or SOOOO

Wait, what are you saying?

 

[JFrank]

I know right ?

 

[Uthink Uknow]

Nobody has mentioned, forthwith or henceforth.

 

[danny]

Randy is getting Cantankerous in his old age.

Confusion about thins like this it is nothing more than simple ignorance. When he makes a video like this, my first thought, is,…,,,,”he is just bitching in order to be bitching”.

As strange as it may seem to those of us who grew up with firearms and have a thorough working knowledge of them, there are millions of people in the US that do not have any knowledge of firearms, how they work, much less the correct terminology for components.

In a movie, when there is a big shoot out, and one character runs out of ammunition, 99 9/10 % percent of the time, they will say…...”I’m out of bullets”

If a man walks into the local Academy Store and asks the clerk, “do you have any bullets for a 30/30”, odds are the clerk is knows exactly what he wants and does not direct him to the Hornady display for 150 grn round nose soft points.

I watch all of Randy’s videos. He poccesses a wealth of knowledge when it comes to ballistics in firearms used for hunting.

But One important aspect of a teachable moment is to teach without being condescending. Randy is missing that.

I would direct him to the bullets and not ammunition.

I should assume right off of the bat that he is an idiot and does not know what words to use? If he doesn't know the words and does not get what he wants, he should graciously accept when he gets what he asks for, then try to work it out

Danny

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Either that or SOOOO

Awesome and Wonderful!

 

[TylerFromMS]

I have began beating all of the 9s out of my barrels over a hickory log like The Real Gunsmith